It was smashed into matchwood.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

In the morning he went out and looked at the matchwood on his lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Legend]

The ends of big timbers in her hull were ground to pulp and matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

The intermingled oars broke like matchwood, and the two ships grappled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Vessel after vessel came ashore, and some were torn into matchwood along the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

Only one of the shells did any damage and it smashed a limbered wagon to matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

The boats were all stove to matchwood except one that was lashed on the forward house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference

Being a frame building and very old it had been like matchwood in the path of the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats] Reference

One of their shells hit one of our ammunition wagons, and smashed part of it to matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference

It bounced once, rolled over and made the rear half of a Poyolavomaar raft into matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer's hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Farm]

The Orkney makes the very similar Ashford Traveller look like it was built out of matchwood, tbh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

The galleass was shattered to matchwood, and Leyva perished with all on board save five who swam ashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

One shot from the rifled ten-inch guns mounted along its sides and the smaller ships would be matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

Briefly, from six till two you would have said that the earth was being shivered to matchwood and fine powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference

Shell-holes were here, there, and everywhere, and the iron was ripped up and rent as though it had been matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

The answering punch was weak, and the new warlord caught it up, snapping the arm at the elbow as easily as matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodlines]

"It's lucky if she isn't smashed to matchwood," groaned Tom, and almost immediately left the Pullman coach on the run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference

The harbormaster sighed, looking at the moored sailboats; half of them would be on the beach, or matchwood, by morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

"Death to the masters!" he thundered, and his ax rose and fell crashingly full on a shackle-chain, severing it like matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Dragon]

'Death to the masters!' he thundered, and his ax rose and fell crashingly full on a shackle-chain, severing it like matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour Of The Dragon]

` Death to the masters! 'he thundered, and his ax rose and fell crashingly full on a shackle-chain, severing it like matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

As for the boat, it was smashed into matchwood on the jagged edges of the boulders, not a fragment of timber a foot long being to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

All the vessels that went ashore became matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

It caught the boat fair amidships, and broke it up like matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference

"She would be beaten up into matchwood, all torn and ragged to pieces.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

Heron -- two on one side of the cabin and one on the other -- blown into matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrigan] Reference

The long-boat changed, as if by magic, into matchwood where she stood in her gripes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth, a Narrative] Reference

Then there are always mines, contact with one of which may pulverise an ordinary wooden drifter into mere matchwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference

Next mornin 'early he got up an' smashed the school winders, redooced the master's desk to matchwood, an 'walked away whistlin'.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Track of the Troops] Reference

He hit the running-board beside the car, crumpled it to matchwood, lifted the car an inch off the track, but failed to disrail us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Trail] Reference

Why, where's your mainmas 'gone by the board, and your fore-mast cut off at the top-mast-head, and your mizzen splintered into matchwood?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea] Reference